The Northern Area Mental Health Service (NAMHS) provides a comprehensive range of specialist mental health services to people who reside in the local government areas of Darebin and Whittlesea. We offer a team environment that encourages family based approaches to mental health care and one where your experience and skills will be appreciated and respected.

About The Role:

Deliver Sessions aimed at Brief Family Crisis Intervention and Assessment and Future Planning

Debrief and explore the impact of the crisis on the family as a whole

Reduce stress from within the family unit by increasing understanding, developing empathy and the re-enforcing of relational bonds

Introduce to relevant information about mental illness, psychiatric crisis, their impact on relationships, information about service systems

Act as a conduit to Family Consultation Sessions if consumer commences or remains in receipt of NAMHS treatment and care

About You:

Experienced in the provision of brief family interventions where the identified consumer has an identified mental illness

Ability to communicate effectively with consumers, families/carers and other service providers

Extensive involvement in the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of mental illness and psychiatric disability